I scheduled our demo (where we walk through how to use all the systems on the RV) for Monday, June 29 at 3:30 p.m. We’re going to videotape it so we don’t forget how to do everything once we actually get the RV. I’ve also arranged for delivery of the RV to our site on Wednesday, July 1 at 9 a.m. The lady from the property management will meet us out there that morning and collect our rent and security deposit. The property management office is going to call back in a couple of hours and let us know exactly which site we’ll be on. That way we’ll have an exact street address to give the cable company and the post office.
I’m so happy I won’t have a BGE bill anymore. I’ve been on budget billing with them for the past year, and they’ve been vastly overcharging me. I have something like a $750 credit right now. Given that they credit customers back for any overages in August, I’ve just stopped paying them. I didn’t give them the June balance, and I’m not giving them July balance, either. I’ll probably get a disconnect notice the second week of July which will likely be dated to the third or fourth week of July. I’m simply going to make a point of having this place totally cleaned up and notify BGE of our moveout before the disconnect date. That way that huge credit I have coming will cover my balance due (probably with some left over to come back to me), and I can use the money I’m NOT paying to BGE to go toward our site rent and our hitch. Our lease isn’t actually up until August 10, so we have plenty of time to get this all done. It’s just that I don’t want to pay BGE one cent more than I have to, so as soon as I’ve cleaned up this place, I’m transferring the power out of my name.
I imagine we’ll move Lex’s office over to the RV that Fourth of July weekend so that she doesn’t lose any time from work. Hopefully, we can get the cable transfer scheduled for July 3. If we can, we’ll probably leave the cable on here for a week or so after just in case there are any issues. Lex still has to work from the apartment on the afternoon of the 1st and all day on the 2nd, but I don’t want to leave the RV out there overnight unoccupied, so I plan on staying out there even if we don’t yet have much moved in. I’ve got to work at school in the afternoons on Wednesday and Thursday, so I’ll get what moving done that I can in the mornings and the evenings, but I suspect the bulk of the moving will happen that holiday weekend. It’d be great to have the apartment empty by Monday so I could start to clean up.
Speaking of cleaning up, I am going to need to get this place as pristine as possible since I just realized we didn’t put down a security deposit when we moved in four years ago. They were having some sort of move in special, I think, so all we put down was first month’s rent and a $150 pet deposit. Landlords being what they are, I know I can kiss that $150 goodbye no matter how well I clean up this place, but I don’t want them to charge me anything extra on top of that. I’m going to shampoo the hell outta the carpet, fill the nail holes, clean the oven, pull out the appliances and clean behind them, everything. I don’t want to leave them with an excuse to screw us anymore than they already have.
